News From Around the South, 7/22 to 7/29
SOUTH CAROLINA: Family of Enslavers and Enslaved Reunite at Historic Cemetery BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. — When Brenda Kinsler’s son was around 10 years old, he came home from school with questions about his family that she couldn’t answer. “Mom, who are we?” Kinsler, who lives...
Freedom’s Extinction
“Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction.” — Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) In December 1776, just six months after the Declaration of Independence had been signed and a year and a half into the Revolutionary War, Thomas Paine sensed a...
Book Review: The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory
The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory. By Gaines M. Foster. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2024. Hardcover, 280 pp. $45.00. Reviewed by Patrick Young In spite of the title, this is not a 280-page examination of the “Limits of the...
President Oliver?
Now it’s Donald Trump versus Kamala Harris. But there will be another choice on your ballot: Chase Oliver. Both Trump and former Democrat-turned-independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed the Libertarian Party convention, asking for their nomination, but Oliver...Obiter Dicta
“That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which Read More
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NORTH CAROLINA: New N.C. bill would introduce AAPI history to school curriculum A new bill in the N.C. General Assembly is calling for Asian American and Pacific Islander history to Read More